Latest Fiction
Brodgar
Re-write of a story I posted two years ago for a Fiction challenge I put on here. I think there ...
The Great Game. Kabul 1839, 1979
I was in Kabul in 1979, and had to leave by a flight to Istanbul. But memory is not reliable ...
Like what you see?
A homage to M R James, who had the talent to evoke the uncanny in otherwise ordinary circumstances. And a ...
Latest Poetry
Winter Of Content (re-post of a challenge poem)
For the former partner with whom I lived these memories... Photo: youngest son with his first box camera Softest ...
The School
published by Tryst Ezine many years ago - there is only one valid draft and this is the one. ...
a fish out of water
my world had left me behind, I was trying to write about love, about sweet nothingness, how I kissed her ...
Notes by Menelaus on Helen’s Abduction
Menelaus' perspective on Helen and Paris; part of a series exploring the theme of Troy and the Trojan War ...
The last love note from Paris
imagining what Paris was thinking of saying to Helen as he lay fatally wounded. Part of a set of poems ...
Non-Ficiton
Conversations on Father’s Day
I should tell you, he was a forceful man. Perhaps he had to be. Beware the wrath of Father, eh? ...
Dance of the Giants (a wedding toast)
Actually gave a version of this best man's toast at my best friend's wedding ...
From the UKArchives
Mary spins herself a wondrous form
No 2 in the series "The Life and Times of Mary" describing the growth of Mary, who may or may ...
Stone Circles
Following on from 'City of Light' this is one from my archive dated 2003. Maybe a bit similar, without magic, but ...